The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 25, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen Groene and, .(except Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher .. : ww 1921 « 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN .. Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-566] and 2-5662 of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively titled to Ue e use for r ction of all dispatches credited to it or not otherwise ted in this paper, and also the local news pub- Member Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 a eee een ee oe eet eaty aes DF mall, $10.00 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues peal but Phot publish and subjects of local or general interest, but it will anonymous communications” IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED ae BY THE CITIZEN lore Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathin "Pavilion, Comolldatian of ates and City Governments. Community Auditorium. SS RR i id PC GOOD-BYE TO POLITICS; LET’S NOW SETTLE DOWN TO BUSINESS In two or three hours from now, you will know who q won for county commissioner in the second district, and, a possibly by 10 o’clock, you will know who will represent this district as state senator for the next four years. By that time also you may be able to determine, basing your opinion on the trend of the results, who will be our next governor. The Citizen believes that all its readers will join it in declaring it is glad campaigning has ended, and that now we can settle down to normal living. Politics is essential to our form of government, yet, say what you may, poli- ties disrupts the amenities in any community. Many of us, under the pressure of political factional fighting, say many things and do many things that we don’t say or do ordinarily. Whether your candidates won or lost, it is futile and foolish now to let politics disturb your mind further. Our thoughts and efforts now should be directed to helping promote the progress of our hometown. City and county commissioners and local civic work- ers who do not hold public office have much to do to im- prove Key West and the rest of the county. Civic workers have started a movement to provide better parking facili- ties. City Manager Lang has said that our ripped-up streets will be repaired as soon as the work in improving our sewer system is finished. Some of our main streets are so filled with ruts and trenches several inches deep, it is timely to ask City Man- ager Lang if repairing them can be started now in those places where mains have been laid already. Driving over those torn-up streets is like bumping the bumps in a cob- blestone road that naeds repairing. In our civie work, let us not confine our efforts to increasing our winter tourist trade. Let us strive to get more tourists during the summer. Tourists are still in Key West, but we should try to increase their number. Many tourists like to fish, and we should remind them, through Publicity, that in June and July tarpon fishing in local waters is better than during any other time of the year. Tarpon have begun to show up in good-sized schools, and in a week or so from now, if we are to judge from past performances, they will be plentiful in a score of nearby places, including our Main Ship Channel. Avast, politics! Let’s buckle down to business. EARS a Those who have been without a dollar, or started a business the hard way, know the value of money. GRIER Oe eae The colleges are about to turn out another group of executives, but most of them will begin at the bottom and work up. i Crossword Puzzle 1. 2. 3. 4 5. . ACROSS 32, Fabulous LIELAISMERIOIE] 1. Pitot bird MIA BE OINREMIOIOIR] t/SIH| 6. Health 34. 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Arabian seaport 47, Handle By Bill Gibb There are a thousand and one things which I don’t understand about the newspaper business, Luckily, everyone from the janitor to the editor helps me out when a knotty problem arises. But no one seems to be able to provide a sat- isfactory answer as to why certain types of news are allowed to dom- inate a newspaper. For instance, Burl Pinder — a local boy — has been honored by the life insurance company for which he works, He was named to the President and Founder’s Club and given a trip to Pontevdra Beach near Jacksonville for his outstanding work here in Key West. The same thing holds true for Er- nest Hopkins. The newspapers haven’t carried either item, Now if Burl-or Ernest were to beat their wives, rob their com- Pany of a few dollars, or even get a traffic ticket for speeding, the chances are good that they would have their named plastered all ov- er the various newspapers which publish Key West stories. With apo- logies to my grammar teacher, ain’t that a heckuva mess? The public can be partly blamed for this, situation because of its constant appetite for sensational news. However, reporters might ex- periment on a small basis and give people a little more informa- tion about the good things that are happening around us every day. Who knows? — Readers might ac- tually be given a chance to feel happy or a change! Another Example Seem like I’m writing a column about life insurance underwriters today but anyway, here is another example of pleasant news facts that are too often missed by all of us. Harold Todd sells insurance in the daytime. (And if I’m any judge of that tribe of go-getters, he pro- bably sells it in his sleep). Never- theless, somewhere along the line, Todd has found time to develop his hobby of oil and watercolor SYRACUSE ™ — Television’s troubles are being tackled today on three fronts. In Washington some senators are looking into the sad plight of certain TV stations who say they’re losing money because they can’t get the good network shows, and of about 70 would-be TV sta- tions who say they dropped their grants because of programing dif- ficulties. In Chicago several groups of set manufacturers, parts and equip- ment makers, and distributors are meeting jointly today to diagnose the ills of an industry beset just jnow by price cutting and periodi: cally by sprees of overproduction, On the producing level ~ as here in Syracuse, where a lot of TV sets are made — they’re talking 4 This Rock Of Ours TIME TO STEP UP AND START BATTIN painting into top-notch quality pro- duction. I found this out accidentally by going into Noble’s Art Gallery to see the Armed Forces Day exhi- bits. I noticed certain . attractive paintings on the wall and inquired as to the artist. You can imagine my chagrin upon being told that the work was done by a man with whom I had been associating daily. Cooperation Needed If you feel the way I coabent playing up the side the news picture, there is a definite ORIGINAL LLEGIBLE Tuesday, May 25, 1954, A Letier From BILL LANTAFF Dear Neighbor: During the gallant stand of the French and Vietnamese forces at Dien Bien Phu, there was talk about whether or not American troops should be sent to Southeast Asia. The fall of that fortress re- vived this talk. 5 There are many factors to be considered in connection with giv- ing thought to sending United Sta- tes forces to that area. First of all, it has been pointed out that while the French and Vietnamese fought courageously at Dien Bien Phu, the United States has assum- ed.over 80 per cent of the cost of way in which you can help bring this about. When something real nice happens to your neighbor or yourself, call the newspaper. and let the reporters know about it. It is true enough that newsmen are paid to get out and dig up in- formation. Their time is limited however, by the necessity of mak- ing a daily. deadline. For this rea- son, it is only natural writers concentrate on fe points such as the police station) «politi. cal headquarters, hospitalg> and courthouses where they can'ge a host of material in the s$ortest time possible. t Speaking for The Key We tizen, there isn’t a reporter staff who doesn’t love to getta tip about some human interest:pr hu- morous incident that has in our town. How about” giving them a break on this score time? Ci- Park Recreation | I think we can wind this column up for today by menti exists in Bayview Park. Mi ple don’t know about it ang sit at home on these stuffy nights when they could be/out in the fresh air enjoying some sport. On Friday nights, an enthusias- tic group of children, (up to about 12-years old), have the time of their lives skating. There igalways tennis and shuffleboard sat the Park and you can usually see a good baseball or softball. game. Take advantage of your City re- creational efforts. Business Mirror By Sam Dawson confidently of progress in-color but concentrating more just now on a new idea or two in black and white to stimulate sales next fall, when they expect business tu pick up. Dr. Walter R. G. Baker, Gen- eral Electric vice president and general manager of its electronics division, says the industry’s main problem just now is price insta- bility rather than any trouble with coy customers waiting for color sets. He expects a good-as- usual pickup this fall in production and sales of black and whites — but with the big question: Who’s going to make the sales. Competi- tion was never keener. Color TV sets will be too ¢x- Pensive for most folks pocketbooks » the Indochina war. The French spend cnly 11 per cent of their national income for defense purposes while the United States spends 14 per cent, exclu- sive of foreign aid. Then, too, the French have made it clear by law that no French draftee can be sent to Indochina. There is certainly not evidence of an all-out-effort on the part of the French. It is your Congressman’s\opin- ;1 ion’ that the free world must give serious consideration to halting the | a, armed aggression of the Commun- ists in Southeast Asia. However, should there be any war effort against the Reds in this area, in my opinion, it should be a United Nations ‘action — one that would be a collective action with each free nation doing an equal share. There is another approach to this "| problem and again it involves the French. It is my belief that the Vietnamese themselves have to have something more than they have now for which to fight. Al- though promises have been made by the French to grant the Viet- namese self-government within the colonial empire, your Congressman feels that the Associated States should be granted their complete independence, such as the United States did in the Philippines and the Dutch did in Indonesia. If this is done, it is my opinion tha the free world would be suc- cessful in recruiting an effective native fighting force, date, we have been unable to do. Your Congressman would favor assistance, such as we furnished to Greece in her fight against Com- munist aggression. It is evident that the fate of Southeast Asia is in the hands of France. and too small for most folks tastes for some time yet, he says, One new black-and-white idea you may see in your TV store this fall will be a set “with the picture on the floor’—a slanted screen that rests on the floor instead of a table. You view the program with your head at the same angle as when you read your newspaper. TV engineers already have put screens on the ceiling for hospital patients, and think some chair- borne customers are going to be intrigued by the down-look idea. The Radio-Electronics-Television Manufacturers Assn. reports that, even at the start of the slack TV season, sets are being turned out at a rate of better than 100,000 a week, and home and car radios at better than 167,000 a week. This association, along with the National Electronic Distributors Assn. and the Association of Elec- tronic. Parts & Equipment Manu- facturers, is meeting this week in Chicago to discuss the problems of this traditionally boom-or-bust industry. which to ai are aware of this sort of condition in the Key West jail: “One thing (among many) that struck me as medie- val was thé of female pri- soners — true, they may mostly of drunks and but I see no exeuse for forcing them to use a pail in connection with certain human functions in full view of male prisoners. My lovely wife is lame,and her gait could easily be mistaken by am Rorant cop as intoxication. If day ever arrives when she is ed up and subjected to the AID APPRECIATED “Bill Gibb c/o Key West Citizen Dear Mr. Gibb: In behalf of the Navy Relief Society grateful appre. ciation is expressed to you for your request for funds and support of this agency in your daily column in The Key West Citizen. Your interest in this organization i, deeply appreciated and your statements have made a valuable contribution to the present fund raising cam. paign. Very sincérély yours, cent treatment of Key West's R. M. FA ire as even think of CDR, USN a canaen with some malicious ve- Chairman, Fund Raising nom, in retribution for my own ex- Campaign Pereience, I can state that { have already sueceeded in detouting a few prospective vacationists from est, Editor’s Note: Jeannette Bliss, who writes the ¢olumn, “Blissful Buying,” has received a letter of appreciation from the Navy Relief Society. and their teen-age children, whe are planning a Florida holiday to- gether. My guess is they would have spent at least a couple of hundred dollars in your city if they were to have gone there. I am most definitely not seek- ing for any more personal publi- city, nor for any additional sym- pathy from the people of Key West, but if you believe this letter eould do anything constructive for the cause of more intélligent and fair- ADDITIONAL COMPLAINT RELAYED Editor, The Citizen It was good of you to have pub- lished last week the copy I sent you of the letter I wrote to Mayor Harvey on May 7, regarding the night I spent in jail on May 1 in Key West-on an alleged drunken- ness charge. . I appreciate your sense of fair play, inasmuch as I understand er treatment of victims of the 2440 Sedgwick Avenue, Apt. 7-H sik New York 68, N. Y teed’ 0 siaher, eaperionss, Be aharges" a ir e. shares my chagrin and bewilder- = tee ment. The only difference between his idding that case and mine, judging from his by the letter, was that at least he was we can with a grasp a origin- never ap- paaes wit pure without any apparent quate, boreah descr. q you want to remain in unity where you are not without established legal connections, when you could get out of town where you had treat- ay, (hocaing aroun i say, i as was} well the written te} In ths to pro- | quote y cor-|last night extend-|tizen who routine | charge of ay-|desies with ‘honest con’ “returned. the clipping of my letter as published | his letter reads, “‘to verbatim in the Citizen of May 12,|plead not guilty. 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